Scientists agree that the Earth is currently undergoing the sixth mass extinction in its 4.6-billion-year history. A new study says that there may be a time lag between when humans implement ...

A study on the Sixth Mass Extinction titled "Relationship between extinction magnitude and climate change during major marine and terrestrial animal crises" has been published in the journal ...

This illustration of an asteroid crashing into Earth could show what a mass extinction event was like earlier in the planet's history. The largest extinction event, the Great Dying, has been ...

A definitive geological timeline shows that a series of massive ... the second and largest of which coincides with the K-Pg mass extinction. Numerous other papers from his research groups are ...

Fossils, scientific discoveries and tireless research efforts have gradually unveiled the mesmerizing tapestry of the dinosaur timeline. Their captivating ... The dawn of dinosaurs began with the ...

Now, thanks to a new analysis of core samples taken from the crater’s inner ring of mountains, called a peak ring, geologists can create a detailed timeline ... or K-Pg, mass extinction.